Why is everybody in this show a ninja?
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redbrunja :For those unfamiliar, first you pick a letter. Then you pick a fandom (or a crossover) and a character or pairing. For example, S is for Starlight, Kairi/Riku (Kingdom Hearts). In turn you'll receive a ficlet of some kind.
Simple, yes?
A is for: Angel, Itachi/Kairi (Naruto/Kingdom Hearts)
keepdreamingxx (this is based on our interactions at ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif){kind=small}
thedollsyhouse , btw)B is for: Baggage, Jacen Solo (Star Wars EU)
digthenym C is for:
D is for: Disaster, Ino & Asuma (Naruto)
redbrunja E is for:
F is for: Flirt, Sakura/Kakashi (Naruto)
redbrunja (disclaimer: I, personally, do not ship this in any way, and only Red is allowed to ask for it because she is awesome)G is for:
H is for: Hand, Deidara/Konan (Naruto)
redbrunja I is for:
J is for: Jerk, Karin/Suigetsu (Naruto)
redbrunja K is for:
L is for: Lie, Ino/Genma (Naruto)
redbrunja M is for: Manly, Karin & Juugo (Naruto)
digthenym N is for:
O is for: Obnoxious, Roy/Riza (FMA)
renaliner P is for:
Q is for: Queen, Sakura/Sai (Naruto)
redbrunja R is for: Rain, Tsunade & Jiraiya (Naruto)
redbrunja S is for: Sandcastle, Riku/Kairi (Kingdom Hearts)
keepdreamingxx T is for: Tits, Jiraiya/Tsunade (Naruto)
redbrunja U is for:
V is for: Virtuous, Anko/Iruka (Naruto)
redbrunja W is for: Water, Itachi/Anko (Naruto)
redbrunja X is for:
Y is for:
Z is for:
In other news, I tweaked my hip while pitching today. We were so busy beating the other team, I didn't notice I was in pain until the last two outs. >.>
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Date: 2009-04-03 01:20 am (UTC)um um um.
O is for Obnoxious, Riza/Roy (Full Metal Alchemist) ALL SYSTEMS GO?
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Date: 2009-04-03 01:30 am (UTC)I'm not caught up to the FMA manga past volume 17, so here is my non-spoily (also not-based-on-any-scene-in-canon) fail:
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"Sir. You have paperwork to do. It is not necessary for you to be at my side from when visiting hours begin to when they end." Riza coughed; the pneumonia made it hard to talk.
Roy waved her off. "No need to thank me, Lieutenant Hawkeye," he said. He plucked a rose out of one of the many bouquets sent to her by her fellow officers. "Do you think holding this in my teeth would make me look more dashing?" He placed the stem in his mouth and pulled it right back out, wincing. "The florist missed a thorn," he said, by way of explanation.
Riza coughed again. "Please, sir. You've been at this for three days."
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Date: 2009-04-03 01:46 am (UTC)I LOVE YOU. AND ROY. IT'S A BIT OF A TOSS UP BUT THE ODDS ARE LOOKING GOOD <3
Also, Riza, oh. So long suffering. Poor thing.
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Date: 2009-04-03 03:55 am (UTC)Q is for Queen - Sai/Sakura
W is for Water - Anko/Itachi
V is for virtuous, Anko/Iruka.
This is a mark of how much I love you, Red.
Date: 2009-04-03 09:39 pm (UTC)"Kakashi-sensei?"
Kakashi glanced at Sakura over the top of Icha Icha Paradise. "Hmm?"
The twelve-year-old girl glanced back the way they'd walked for a second, looking uncomfortable. "Why was Anko-sensei talking to you so familiarly back there? She seemed kind of..." She didn't finish the sentence, but Kakashi knew she'd noticed the stagger in the older kunoichi's step, as well as the sake on her breath.
"Anko-sensei is a very outgoing woman," he said, burying his eye in his porn again.
"But she acted like she wanted to..." Sakura seemed to consider a word choice very carefully, "...she seemed like she was flirting with you."
"Believe it or not, Sakura, your sensei is a popular man in Konoha." An outright lie. It wasn't his place to explain Mitarashi Anko to his student.
But Sakura, surprisingly, was nodding. "...I could see that..." she mused.
Kakashi blinked. Really?
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Date: 2009-04-03 09:48 pm (UTC)Sakura stared at Sai. "You didn't."
"I had a very nice time," Sai said. "Naruto suggested the place to me. He said I needed to work on my interpersonal skills in a social setting. Unfortunately, a scheduling conflict kept him from going with me, but I think I got some very good experience out of it."
"...You do realize what that place is, right?" Sakura briefly reflected that Sai was going to drive her to the bottle someday.
"A venue for social interaction through the medium of drink and musically-enhanced cardiovascular exercise?"
"It's a gay bar, Sai."
Sai blinked. "Oh." A pause. "Is that why that young man gave me his home address?"
Sakura merely groaned and rubbed her temples, as Sai continued, "I thought he seemed rather eager to bond with someone he'd only just met..."
"Sai, please stop talking."
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Date: 2009-04-03 10:05 pm (UTC)"You're not."
"I am."
"You're not."
"I am."
"Dammit, Iruka, I hate it when men lie to me. You can't be telling me you're a virgin."
"I'm not lying to you, Anko."
"So you're saying you never had sex before."
"No. I mean yes, that's what I'm saying. No, I've never had sex before."
"...so...wow. So tonight's going to be really special for you, huh?"
"Well, any night I'm with Anko is special to me--"
"Shut up," and she silences him with her lips.
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ffffffff Iruka is so cute.
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Date: 2009-04-04 03:15 am (UTC)Also, I remembered that you'd once requested a look at Insomniac from Anko's POV. While I'm still working on a full piece, I did do this one in a similar style, and there are some allusions thrown in there to it and other one-shots.
With that said...
W is for Water:
They are too young for this. He is thirteen and she is eighteen, and they are too young for this, they are told. They're not too young to be chuunin, not too young to fight and die and murder, but they are too young for this.
Maybe they are both aware of this, and maybe it is that cognitive dissonance that distances them when they do this, widens the gulf between them when they should feel the closest to each other.
Her chakra is midnight blue, and one night, for the first time she makes the mistake of actually making eye contact during the act.
She sees them burning red and wild and suddenly she's wet and cold and drowning and she can't breathe why the water in her lungs or the hand at her throat and the world going red black dim cold
...
She's come to a moment later, and the moon has moved from the middle of a tree branch's shadow to the tip of its grasping leaves. He's dripping with sweat some couple meters away, shivering violently though it's an eighty-degree summer night with no wind. Gripping his head in his hands, white-knuckled, palms trembling over his eyes. She’s too stunned and confused about what’s just happened to be properly angry or betrayed or whatever the stock response should be.
After a moment, the breath shudders back into his lungs, and he speaks. “I’m sorry, I... I didn’t mean to—I lost control.”
Strange, that. She rubs at her throat, where she’d thought she’d felt icy fingers and... “That’s a new one,” she says. Somewhere under the shock, it’s funny. Everything is, in the end.
He won’t look at her. She wonders. “...Your first, huh?”
She doesn’t even need to look at his face to see the question etched there. “Your first murder,” she clarifies.
He draws his knees up, curls up with his forehead resting on them. She edges closer and runs a hand along his jawline. It comes away wet with tears.
“It’s not going to be your last, kid,” she whispers. “Not by a long shot.”
They never speak of it again. She’s had nights like that and conversations like that for so long that this one eventually only blurs into her memory like the rest.
But years later, she stills feels an inexplicable chill when crossing running water.
*hugs* You're sweet. Also, I'm sure this is some pairing you love that I'd only write for you.
Date: 2009-04-04 06:42 am (UTC)I like to think that this exchange plants a seed of an idea in Kakashi's head that is going to lead INTERESTING places later.
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Date: 2009-04-04 06:44 am (UTC)But this is totally awesome and Naruto would totally do that, and I can't wait to see his reaction when Sai ends up getting a date with Sakura out of it.
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Date: 2009-04-04 06:45 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-04-04 05:23 pm (UTC)-looks at comments.- Oh. I guess you are. Haha.
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A is for Angel - Itachi/Kairi (XDDDDDDDDDDDDD)
S is for Sandcastle - Kairiku
You know I might even do this meme. wtf. I don't have much to do this weekend, anyway...
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Date: 2009-04-05 01:58 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-04-05 02:00 am (UTC)Sai totally gets a date. And not at a gay bar, either.
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Date: 2009-04-05 02:01 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-04-05 05:05 am (UTC)J is for Jerk, Karin/Suigetsu
L is for Lie, Ino/Genma
H is for Hand, Deidara/Konan.
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Date: 2009-04-05 10:09 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2009-04-05 10:22 pm (UTC)I loved loved loved the way you mixed sex and death with Anko witnessing the drowning.
Also, one first misread I read 'it won't be your last' and 'you won't last' which is kinda chilling considering what happens later.
Fantastic, fantastic job.
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Date: 2009-04-06 12:09 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2009-04-06 12:32 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-04-06 12:39 am (UTC)XDDDDDD
Date: 2009-04-06 02:42 am (UTC)A is for Angel:
There's just something about the young man (or older teen--it's hard to pin down his age) that piques Kairi's curiosity as much as it frightens her. He's killed in the past, she's been told. She's seen him throw knives with inhuman accuracy, striking down monsters she knows he can't even see, and yet he never seems to enjoy the violence. There's something in the darkness of his eyes, something far-off, melancholic and adult, something that gave up the luxury of hope a long time ago.
"I don't think you're a bad person," she says, and for the first time in the maybe three hours total that she has spent with him, something that might be a smile flirts with the corner of his mouth.
"I hope that doesn't mean you think I'm a good person," he says, his voice as soft as the tread of a hunting cat. The kind of deep voice that creates a buzzing echo beneath your ribs.
She shivers, but can't let it die there. This house is large, and lonely, and after a while, even the most insane of conversations becomes welcome. "Well...I like to think there's good in everyone," she says, drawing her knees up to her chest. "And you...well, you seem different from...how you are." Wow. That made sense.
"Do I?" His head turns in her direction from the sound of her voice, and he talks to a point a few inches to the right of her head.
"You don't seem...happy. With what you do." That's right, provoke the stranger who could kill you.
By way of answer, he shrugs, and says, "When one loves, one runs the risk of hate. Evil couldn't exist, after all, without a good to fight against. Even Lucifer was an angel once."
"So...you're saying that..." She closes her eyes and rubs them, thinking. "You're saying..." She opens them and he's standing right in front of her. His eyes are burning red, and she can't move for momentary terror.
"I'm saying," he says softly, running two fingers along her trembling jawline, "that the higher you fly, the farther you fall."
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Date: 2009-04-06 02:48 am (UTC)"Wet sand builds better," Riku sneers at Sora's attempts to dig higher up the tideline.
Sora grins and says, "We'll see whose is standing last," while Kairi gathers thalassa shells from tidepools.
Riku's is bigger and more elaborate, but the tide comes in over it before Kairi's done exclaiming over Sora's.
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I still can't give him a happy ending, dammit.